Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

I found this picture on a Face Book page where a guy added a light bar to the front of his tractor. Looked nice. Not sure I would want to do it with nice grill but I have a few not so good ones I am going to try it on.
He said he bought it at Menard's but I found one that is possibly cheaper.
https://www.amazon.com/Nilight-Driving- ... 9653&psc=1

He said he took the mounts that came with the light and tig welded them to the grill part where the existing headlight cutouts were on the grill. Nice feature is you get the bright white light or the orangeish sodium light color. I wired it into the ignition switch, factory location.

Doublet (Terry)

On my 446 I have installed a couple of these lights:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07D7N ... UTF8&psc=1



In retrospect I should have gotten the 6 inch instead of the 5 inch. The 5 inch look square instead of rectangular. I did not enlarge the original holes, instead I mounted these on the back side, in the interior.

They are very very bright. My original 446 lights were terrible, the glass all yellow.

Eugen wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:58 pm On my 446 I have installed a couple of these lights:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07D7N ... UTF8&psc=1

In retrospect I should have gotten the 6 inch instead of the 5 inch. The 5 inch look square instead of rectangular. I did not enlarge the original holes, instead I mounted these on the back side, in the interior.

They are very very bright. My original 446 lights were terrible, the glass all yellow.
IMG_5551.jpg

Very Nice!
Thanks for sharing!
Doublet (Terry)

I got new plastic lenses at, I Save Tractors, for the Case 446, then cleaned up my light buckets and sprayed them with chrome paint, then installed led bulbs. Seems to be alright. Never out at night with it any way to much.
Case 224 has glass lenses. So they are good.

That’s neat Terry. Gives it a more modern look. And you change change the light colour. ?

Noel

Propane57 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:35 pm I got new plastic lenses at, I Save Tractors, for the Case 446, then cleaned up my light buckets and sprayed them with chrome paint, then installed led bulbs. Seems to be alright. Never out at night with it any way to much.
Case 224 has glass lenses. So they are good.

That’s neat Terry. Gives it a more modern look. And you change change the light colour. ?

Noel

Apparently you can change the color with the light bar he got from Menard's. I tried to look it up but couldn't find exact one he was talking about.

Doublet (Terry)

Have any of you that have switched to LEDs had any issues with the snow covering them and not melting off? I was going to put them in, but ran into some bringing up the snow thing.

I've had no issues so far with them getting covered. Thinking unless you have a cab, if they are getting that covered you are also eating a lot of snow.
Tim

Tim,
The LEDs on the cab don't get clovered I don't use the OEM headlights when snow blowing, I don't like the glare off the caster or the shadows from the chute. The lights on the cab are wider so minimal shadows, and farther away from the caster to diffuse enough to reduce the glare. To be honest I overdid the headlights on the Simplicity, one of the 36 watt 340 lumen sealed beams was bad so I ordered a set of "par 36", 9 watt 900 lumen each LEDs.

One 36W and One new 9W for comparison.
Gordy

Some light pictures. 446 got the led lights. 224 has the normal bulbs. 224 seem to put more light in front of the tractor. But that could be because of the glass lenses compared to plastic lenses. Any way, I’m not out very much at night with them any way. But here in Canada ya gotta have daytime running lights. Hehe.

Noel

I've been slowly working on some led headlights. Not finished yet. Maybe I'll find some time to play with them some more before winter is over. But I'm trying to see if I can get them to work in the stock hole. Curious how they turn out. Still working on the bucket end of the housing to accept the led case.

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With the loader on the hood light are there for looks mostly 2 of these for backing up / blowing 2 of these over the windshield
Seeing at night is not a problem . Reflection off blowing snow sometimes is .

Dave